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Can you reverse type one diabetes

No, Type 1 diabetes cannot be reversed. After the honeymoon period, no insulin is produced, so the patient needs insulin injections to stay alive.

Even someone diagnosed with Type 2 will always be diabetic. With a low carb diet, they may be able to achieve normal blood sugars, but they will always be diabetic and therefore prone to raised blood sugars under certain circumstances.
 
To expand on the points made above, type 1 is an autoimmune disease - the body of someone with type 1 has decided the cells which produce insulin are bad and kills them.
One of the problems of transplanting new cells that produce insulin is the body of a type 1 will continue to think of insulin producing cells as bad and will kill them off.
So, there it is not possible to reverse type 1.
 
Maybe, but I expect more people have walked on the moon.

There have been 1 or 2 cases reported in children when a very low carb diet has slowed down the autoimmune process so much that the beta cells have recovered. (It’s possible that in a few people that a wheat allergy drives the autoimmune process.)

Clearly once the honeymoon is over and all the beta cells are dead, there is no possibility of a reversal without some type of cell transplant.
 
Yes, it is possible to reverse T1 Diabetes.

However this requires a pancreas transplant and leaves you with a whole raft of issues associated with taking immunosupressant drugs for the rest of your life (which may be limited to the length of time your new pancreas can survive in your body).

Not an option available for most; it is normally only for those who are dying from failing kidneys, and who get a pancreas along with a kidney when they have the kidney transplant.

Allegedly a lot less trouble just to manage the T1.
 
Tipetoo said:
I give no refunds, ya paid the money, ya took ya chances mate. :D
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Didn't work out too bad. Not a cure but they flew me to Peru, got a heli to Machu Picu, fed me lots of mescalin, treatment was adminstered by undressed 25 yr old virgins, who's going to complain about that? Actually, outward flight was by Ryanair, who dumped me in Berlin, so there was a few bus trips and ferries, but I got there in the end.

PS: for any newly dx'd here, all of the above is totally made up. But...while both T1 and T2 are serious conditions which we all need to take seriously, you've got to maintain your sanity by just taking the p*ss out of it every now and then. A bit like WWII - bad situation, but didn't stop people singing about how Hitler only had one ball! Chin up, people!
 
@Scot-C sounds like a cure, I am waiting for a email from King Bongabonga in Nigeria saying he has a cure for it.
 
I've never heard of reversing of type 1. i personally don't agree with the term reversing anyhow..... if it is even possible it means you'd be doing absolutely nothing at all to control diabetes and you're within normal range with your sugar levels. Most people that say they've reversed diabetes that I've seen are doing something to control the condition, eg. they've significantly changed their diet. For me, I'm a type 2 who doesn't produce insulin I need so people like myself are similar to type 1 in that we need to inject insulin to stay alive. I haven't heard of anyone reversing that either. Eg. restoring insulin production.
 
kokhongw said:
This discussion may be interesting for some.
https://chriskresser.com/could-type-1-diabetes-be-reversible-after-all/
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@kokhongw - I dont' think posting this article is particularly fair or helpful. As it itself says, while there are mechanisms for restoring beta cell mass (of which the technique described is one, and there are a number of others), it doesn't stop the autoimmune issues that cause beta cells to be attacked and destroyed, which is fundamental to reversing type 1. As a result, this isn't really an article about reversing T1, and the headline is a little too much attention grabbing. The status remains the same as it always has.

While there is much research going on into how to stop the autoimmune attack on the beta cells (checkout the MulT1pepT1de research), until this has properly been done, T1 diabetes remains irreversible, regardless of increasing beta cell mass.
 
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